East Boston, April 12-27, 2008: Interference – in the sense of a visual, voice, radio, or television signal obstructing the reception of another signal – can be generated deliberately or inadvertently, by natural forces or human endeavor, constantly or intermittently, according to a pattern or in an apparently random way.
In Interference, Liska plays with the idea of electronic transmission as metaphor for the brain's neural impulses, in film, photograph, and installation. Liska, who experiences intermittent seizures, and understands among other things that from time to time she will be subject to such random bursts of interference with her consciousness, knows first hand how little confidence there is to be had in one’s perceptions of reality, that there is no bright light but that may blind, and no narrative that, however entertaining, will forever remain unfractured. From her singular vantage point, Liska questions “all our perceptions of what’s true, what’s happened, how these perceptions can be interfered with, how hard it is to know what’s real and true.” In the end, Liska wonders if an unadulterated signal is possible or even desirable. With intertwining plants, furniture rendered into monuments, electromagnetic devices caught in moments of being awkward and silly, Interference engages modern menace with a sense of play.
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> The public is invited to Atlantic Works Gallery’s OPENING RECEPTION, Saturday, April 12, from 6 to 9 pm and to the THIRD THURSDAY RECEPTION on Thursday, April 17, 6-9 pm.
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Begun in 2003, Atlantic Works Gallery, East Boston’s Collaborative Space for Art and Ideas, is a member- operated gallery located on the top floor of 80 Border Street on the waterfront of East Boston. It is T- accessible (near the Maverick T stop on the Blue Line,) and parking is usually ample.